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METHOD OF MAKING GUPFS.

No. 442.319. Patented Dec. 9, 1890.

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UNl'TED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRED ll. lDE, OF TROY, NElV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY A. MERRITT, OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF MAKING CUFFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,319, dated December 9, 1890.

Application filed February 19, 1890. Serial No. 340,987. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern..-

Be it known that I, FRED B. IDE, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparel-Cuffs, of which the following is a specification.

\Iy invent-i011 relates to improvements in the method of making apparel-cults; and these improvements have for their object to sim- [O plify the making of them and to reduce the cost of their production.

My invention consists (as will be more fully detailed hereinafter in connection with its illustration) in the application of two or more I5 ply-blanks cut of the same length as the exterior facings, and enough wider than the cuff to be made to form a hemfold in the side edge of each facing, and two or more plies cut about the same width as the cuff to be produced,

and the parts connected by placing at the bottom the two exterior facings, and over the latter the plies, then sewing the parts together across the ends, turningthem through one of the open sides and then border-stitching the parts to finish them, my principal improvement being in having what constitutes the outside facing of the cuff and the plies adjacently connected by the first end stitching, and not in placing the facings be tween the plies, then end stitching and turning the cuff ontbetween the facings with part of the plies attached to each of the facings.

This change in the differing position of the facings and plies produces distinct square corners and positions the exterior facing so as to be more easily laundried and to take on a better finish when the cuff is curled to give it body form.

Accompanying this specification to form a to part of it there are two plates of drawings,

containing ten figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them.

Of the illustrations, Figure 1 shows the two 5 plies and the facing forming the outer face of the cuff as inclosed by a hemfold made in the facing. Fig. 2 shows the parts shown in Fig. 1 as laid over the facing, forming the exterior body-facing of the cuff. Fig. 3 shows the parts as laid at Fig. 9 and end sewed. Fig. 4 shows a longitudinal section of Fig. 3, taken on the line 00' 5c; and Fig. 5 shows a cross-section taken 011 the line x of Fig. 3. Fig. (3 shows the parts connected, as at Fig. 3, after having been stitched across the ends and ready for turning. Fig. 7 shows a section taken on the line 123 or of Fig. (3. Fig. 8 shows a completed cuif; Fig. '9, a section taken on the line 00 0;" of Fig. .8; and Fig. 10 shows a section taken on the line 00 a of Fig. 8.

The several parts of the cuif thus illustrated are designated by letter reference and the step-by-step operations by which they are connected is described as follows:

The letter F designates the facing that forms the exterior of the cuff when worn, and F the facing that forms the bodyside of the cuff when worn, and P P designate the plies. The letters h designate hemfolds formed in the edge of the facing F, embracing the side edges of the plies, and the letters 712 designate the hemfolds formed in the edge of the facing F, which do not embrace the edge of the plies, but are merely turned in and secured by the border-stitching. The blanks thus cut and hemfolded, together with the plies, are laid as shown at Figs. 1 and *2, and are then end-stitched, as designated at S, Figs. 3 and 4E. They are then, as in the position shown at Figs. 6 and 7, turned through either of the unsewed sides and border-stitched, as shown at S Figs. 8, 9, and 10. As thus made, the plies and what is the outer facing of the cuff when worn are securely anchored together at the ends and at the sides by means of the hemfolds, while the inner or body side facing of the cuff does not embrace at its side edges the sides of the plies, so that in curling the cuffs for wearing shape the inner facing will more readily take up any tendency to wrinkle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of making apparel-cuffs as herein described, and consisting of cutting the two exterior cuff-facings of same site,

hemfolding their side edges, placing the two facing's together with their hemfoided edges reversed, with the hemfold ot the facing forming the body side of the cuffs when Worn embracing the edges of the ply placed over said facing, and then stitching the ends of the parts as laid, then turning them through one of the unclosed sides, so as to bring the facing's outside, and then border-stitching the 

